1st Edition

Managing and Marketing Tourist Destinations Strategies to Gain a Competitive Edge

By Metin Kozak, Seyhmus Baloglu Copyright 2011
262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Destination marketing is more challenging than other goods and services. The basis of competitive advantage shifts from tourism resources only (destination marketing) to a location-based or city-wide integrated management (place marketing). In this book, tourism scholars Metin Kozak and Seyhmus Baloglu discuss and synthesize theories, models, techniques, and principles for strategic marketing and... Read more

Preface  Part 1: Destination Competitiveness  1. Why Destination Competitiveness?  2. Destination Competitiveness: An Overview  3. Determinants of Destination Competitiveness  Part 2: Destination Management  4. Destination-Based Management Strategies  5. Destination-Based Total Quality Management  6. Destination Benchmarking  Part 3: Destination Marketing  7. Destination-Based Marketing Strategies  8. Destination Branding  9. From Traditional Marketing to ‘It’ Marketing

Biography

Metin Kozak serves as Professor of Marketing, Mugla University, Turkey. Kozak has published in international journals and presented over 40 papers at countless conferences. He is the author and co-editor of six books. His main research interests focus on consumer behavior, benchmarking, competitiveness, cross-cultural research, destination management and marketing, and European tourist markets.

Seyhmus Baloglu is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, UNLV, USA. Baloglu is a prolific author and the recipient of numerous national and international research awards. His research interests revolve around Destination Image and Branding, Customer Loyalty, Internet Marketing, Data Mining, and TQM.